RNR Test 3 SG pt 2

Wildlife conservation and management activities

Game and non-game management

Management consists of manipulating organisms, habitats, and human user groups

Niche characteristics - why would they be important to a manager, and what would we do about them?

Reproductive habitat requirements

Population dynamics

Wildlife responses to stress

Management objectives; both game and non-game

Management alternatives depend on objectives

Management plan based on succession, niche, population dynamics, human impacts, …

Managing succession for different species groups
Climax community species
Mid-successional species
Early-successional species

Cover management - why is it important?

Edge, inherent and induced, why is it good, and why is it bad?

Habitat management practices for various species, elk, bald eagle, Kirtland’s warbler, …

Artificial nesting habitat

Snags

Watering holes and guzzlers

Hunting - compensatory and additive mortality

Control of population sizes and sex ratios

Hunting regulations

Funding for wildlife management - Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (Pittman-Robertson)

How can hunting affect the genetic composition of a population?

North American Waterfowl Management Plan
Joint Ventures
Conservation strategies and activities
Waterfowl refuges and WPA
Funding for management - 1934 Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act

Waterfowl management activities/issues:
Habitat management - nesting habitat
Lead shot
Adaptive Harvest Management

Threatened and Endangered Species

Endangered Species Act of 1973

Imperiled species management activities:
Refuges, preserves
Refuge design - fragmentation, territory, home range considerations
Biosphere reserves
Gene banks and botanical gardens
Captive breeding
Egg pulling

The California condor - a species destined for extinction, but maybe not…
Genetic concerns
Effective population size
Genetic diversity and genetic drift